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Past Announcements for Fall 2021

• (11/16) PrP Option 1 The PrP Option 1 has been graded. Few of view managed to submit an empty or corrupt .zip or .tar file or file say x.tar where one file y.java was in fact a tar or a zip file itself. For the 10th to 100th time: test before you submit. Approximately one third of you submitted a zip (few of you a tar file) that when unzipped or untarred created a directory. In PrP Option 2, I will deduct 80pts for such a case. The such deducted points will be assigned to the students who did the right thing.
• (11/11) HW 5 The homework has an extended due date because of the bonus question. As indicated in canvas it is available until (aka due date) noon time (12PM for canvas) of Mon 22 Nov.
• (11/02) Exam 1 grading The grading for Exam 1 has been completed. Statistic are available in Section C.4 of the course web-page. The exampaper will be returned in class 11/4 around 7:30pm. A solution key would be made available from section C of the course web-page. Midterm course performance guidance is available through section C.1 of the course web-page.
• (10/30) Exam 1 in Canvas Those of who who submitted the Report-Grade-for-Exam1 quiz you should be able to see the point total of your Exam 1 in canvas. Note the official grade is the paper grade; i have double checked that the recorded in canvas grade is indeed the correct one as shown on the paper Exam 1. Those of you who did not submit the quiz mentioned above, canvas records either a dash or 0 as there has been no submission recorded for a grade to become available. Wait until this coming Wednesday 7:30pm or so to find out about your grade. Midterm guidance will be provided based on HW1-HW4,EX1 (480pts total) in section C of the course web-page.
• (10/27) Exam 1 email An email re Exam 1 was sent out earlier today (Wed 10/27).
• (10/22) Reporting grade after Exam 1 is graded For the paper in-class Exam 1 I will utilize afterwards a Report-Grade-for-Exam1 quiz in canvas to report just the grade total for each one of you. But for this you need to submit ONCE. The quiz would be available at noon time of the day of the exam for roughly two days. If you submit you will say a numeric grade after the paper exam is graded. If you do not submit, you wait until the paper exam is returned to you graded in class at around 7:30pm. So far (10/27@16:20) response rate is around 33%.
• (10/19) Exam 1 material Exam 1 will cover the sections of the designated textbook as indicated on the cover pages of Subject (typewritten notes) 1,2,3,4, and 5. Subject 6 and Subject 8 covered in class or to be covered on 10/20 will not be in the exam. Note that the Subjects and the accompanying handwritten notes (aka what we did in class) contain additional material that IS in the EXAM. A good source of practice are the relevant PS (Problem Sets) such as PS1-PS5, the homeworks given, and practice problems at the end of a chapter of the designated textbook. A guidance on what an exam could look like is provided by the practice Midterm exams on the course web-page (Section C). Some of them are even provided with sample solutions.
• (10/15) Kaltura voiceovers for Subject 4 and Subject 8 Some voiceover have been made available for Subject 4 (Hash Tables) and Subject 8 (Web-page ranking) for your assistance since they discuss topics related to the PrP's options.
• (10/13) Solution key for HW4 The HW4 solution key has been posted in section C.
• (10/7) Exam 1 (midterm) preliminaries The midterm is scheduled for 10/27. Earlier on that day a Report-Grade-for-Exam1 quiz will be made available in canvas (12am on Oct 27) and would remain so until midnight of Oct 29. If you 'submit it', I will use it as space to provide you the grade of the paper Exam 1. If you do not 'submit it', it won't be possible for me to report your grade through canvas, and you will have to wait to receive the graded paper on (hopefully) Nov 3 during the break of 7:30pm. The 'quiz' has a 5 minute count-down waiting for a YES or NO to a simple question!
• (10/7) HW3 solution key and ... HW4 The HW3 solution key has been posted in section C. HW4 has been out since yesterday. HW3 would become available for inspection in canvas on Friday at noon and it would remain available for 14 days.
• (9/30) HW2 solution key It has been posted in section C. As a comment to HW2 as well, note that all of your answers for HomeWork 3 should be in closed form. This means all calculations should be done and the terms are written highest order first to lowest order last.
• (9/20) Office hour room for Sep 20-Sep22 The alternative room, GITC 4325, will still be used. Do not show-up in my office (GITC 4213).
• (9/17) HW 1 grading, HW1 solution key and canvas A solution key is available through section C. On Monday, HW1 grades will be released in canvas and HW1 will be viewable for 14 days starting Monday.
• (9/16) Exam seating arrangements They have become available in Section C.1.b. They will also be posted in canvas Announcements.
• (9/15) HW1 question 5 There are some typos there or some things that might confuse you: (a) a Handout 3 is a typo for Document 2, (b) Around i-j you have a left and right parenthesis; these are parentheses, not absolute value, and (c) the sentence "We only need" ends with an exclamation mark after B(n), not with a factorial symbol! (and so did this sentence ended after the word symbol)
• (9/8) Ida disruption The availability of HW1 has been extended two more days (48 hours) to account for the disruption of Ida. HW1 would be available until noon time (12PM) of Friday 17 September. (The number of attempts is not reset.)
• Verification of Presence All students who had a submission of the canvas Quiz through 9/12@noon 9/10@10:01 9/8@13:05 9/6@10:20, 9/3@15:30 have been verified on Mon 9/13@10am. Past this, verification per the protocol described in the most recent email. Note that a new system is being utilized in Banner. I double check for everything, so I don't know how long it takes for you to be able to see the update.
• Kaltura voiceover for Subject 1 I have published in Canvas Kaltura voiceovers for the review material of Subject 1. The slides might be rearranged a bit or corrected as the voiceover are from last year. They can help you in reviewing yesterday's material and what will be covered on Sep 15 (Sep 8 NJIT follows a Monday schedule and thus there is no class).
• Provost Email and Syllabus Addendum An NJIT Provost email was received 8/31@12:07PM. It requires that certain language be added to the syllabus. This has become an addendum to the syllabus available through Section B of the Course Web Page and also as a separate announcement in Canvas.
• First Class and First week By now you should have received a Welcome note from me, the instructor. The email was sent to the (email) address of record that NJIT maintains for you. Our first class is Wed 1 Sep. Note that NJIT requires mask-wearing irrespective of vaccination status. The next (second) class would be Wed 15 Sep as NJIT follows a Monday schedule on Wed 8 Sep (Labor Day adjustment). There will be a room change for my office hours in the first two weeks. NJIT plans to change the carpet but they have not done anything yet, but they are about to start to do so. I will post more info as soon as it is available. I will be using GITC 4325 if my office is unavailable! I usually handout out the syllabus (Document 1) in hard-copy during the first class. I will not do so this semester due to covid-19 precautions. The official syllabus in PDF is available through section B in addition to the unofficial HTML version of it.
• Canvas page active Documents 0-5 have been posted in Canvas/Announcements. MyUCID credentials are needed to access canvas.njit.edu. Moreover, Document 4 and Document 5 are available through Section B. Note that canvas might be inaccessible prior to the start of the semester, per NJIT canvas policy.
• Back 2 classroom link To be used in the context of a converged mode class.
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